Herck Quickest As GP2 Pre-Season Testing Ends

Michael Herck recorded the fastest time on the second day of the GP2 Series test at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya, as pre-season testing for 2011 came to a conclusion.

Championship hopeful Jules Bianchi set the early pace in the morning session for ART. Luiz Razia then bettered Bianchi's lap by eight hundredths of a second, before AirAsia teammate Davide Valsecchi, who topped the timesheets on the first day of the test, went quickest. Scuderia Coloni driver Herck later went quickest, where he remained until the end of the session. Sam Bird was second for iSport, with Romain Grosjean third for Dams. Valsecchi ended up fourth, one place ahead of fellow Italian Luca Filippi. The morning session was a very close affair, with the top eighteen drivers all covered by a second.

In the afternoon it was Marcus Ericsson who was quickest for much of the session for iSport, before Bianchi returned to the top spot. It would be Valsecchi who would end the session in first position though, going three tenths quicker than Bianchi. Davide Rigon got himself into second for Coloni and ahead of Bianchi. Ericsson ended up fourth, with Razia rounding out the top five for the final pre-season test session.

The opening round of the 2011 GP2 Series takes place at Istanbul on 6-8 May.

Morning session times:

Driver

Team

Laptime

Gap

Laps

1.

Michael Herck

Scuderia Coloni

1:29.608

34

2.

Sam Bird

iSport International

1:29.633

+0.025

20

3.

Romain Grosjean

Dams

1:29.639

+0.031

31

4.

Davide Valsecchi

Team Air Asia

1:29.669

+0.061

38

5.

Luca Filippi

Super Nova Racing

1:29.697

+0.089

34

6.

Davide Rigon

Scuderia Coloni

1:29.754

+0.146

32

7.

Christian Vietoris

Racing Engineering

1:29.805

+0.197

30

8.

Oliver Turvey

Carlin

1:29.860

+0.252

31

9.

Luiz Razia

Team AirAsia

1:29.970

+0.362

47

10.

Max Chilton

Carlin

1:29.973

+0.365

32

11.

Giedo van der Garde

Barwa Addax Team

1:29.983

+0.375

33

12.

Stefano Coletti

Trident Racing

1:29.993

+0.385

24

13.

Charles Pic

Barwa Addax Team

1:30.051

+0.443

26

14.

Jules Bianchi

Lotus ART

1:30.052

+0.444

38

15.

Josef Kral

Arden International

1:30.123

+0.515

29

16.

Marcus Ericsson

iSport International

1:30.264

+0.656

35

17.

Dani Clos

Racing Engineering

1:30.376

+0.768

24

18.

Pal Varhaug

Dams

1:30.405

+0.797

28

19.

Jolyon Palmer

Arden International

1:30.640

+1.032

28

20.

Fabio Leimer

Rapax

1:30.649

+1.041

23

21.

Rodolfo Gonzalez

Trident Racing

1:30.679

+1.071

34

22.

Johnny Cecotto

Ocean Racing Technology

1:30.772

+1.164

22

23.

Esteban Gutierrez

Lotus ART

1:30.847

+1.239

27

24.

Fairuz Fauzy

Super Nova Racing

1:30.994

+1.386

32

25.

Kevin Mirocha

Ocean Racing Technology

1:31.096

+1.488

22

26.

Julian Leal

Rapax

1:32.743

+3.135

14

Afternoon session times:

Driver

Team

Laptime

Gap

Laps

1.

Davide Valsecchi

Team AirAsia

1:30.316

35

2.

Davide Rigon

Scuderia Coloni

1:30.591

+0.275

26

3.

Jules Bianchi

Lotus ART

1:30.675

+0.359

38

4.

Marcus Ericsson

iSport International

1:30.810

+0.494

35

5.

Luiz Razia

Team AirAsia

1:31.179

+0.863

32

6.

Esteban Gutierrez

Lotus ART

1:31.184

+0.868

38

7.

Fabio Leimer

Rapax

1:31.243

+0.927

33

8.

Julian Leal

Rapax

1:31.254

+0.938

31

9.

Kevin Mirocha

Ocean Racing Technology

1:31.483

+1.167

32

10.

Luca Filippi

Super Nova Racing

1:31.738

+1.422

23

11.

Fairuz Fauzy

Super Nova Racing

1:31.786

+1.470

26

12.

Max Chilton

Carlin

1:32.120

+1.804

41

13.

Christian Vietoris

Racing Engineering

1:32.750

+2.434

33

14.

Romain Grosjean

Dams

1:33.478

+3.162

42

15.

Michael Herck

Scuderia Coloni

1:33.505

+3.189

28

16.

Pal Varhaug

Dams

1:33.536

+3.220

36

17.

Stefano Coletti

Trident Racing

1:33.673

+3.357

39

18.

Dani Clos

Racing Engineering

1:33.863

+3.547

31

19.

Oliver Turvey

Carlin

1:33.868

+3.552

31

20.

Jolyon Palmer

Arden International

1:33.905

+3.589

36

21.

Rodolfo Gonzalez

Trident Racing

1:34.038

+3.722

40

22.

Josef Kral

Arden International

1:34.097

+3.781

37

23.

Sam Bird

iSport International

1:34.152

+3.836

43

24.

Giedo van der Garde

Barwa Addax Team

1:34.195

+3.879

30

25.

Charles Pic

Barwa Addax Team

1:34.296

+3.980

28

26.

Johnny Cecotto

Ocean Racing Technology

1:34.314

+3.998

47

Herck Quickest As GP2 Pre-Season Testing Ends was last modified: April 20th, 2011